The beginning of the school year is here and our new School Resource Officer has been selected. Officer Armando Olmos began his second assignment at the school district. Officer Olmos was chosen after a series of testing that included written tests and oral board interview. Congratulations to Officer Olmos. I know he will represent our agency well.

The Sandy Police Department now has two resource officers in the school district. Plans began to take shape months ago to make this happen. With the growth in the school district it was much needed. This will allow our officers to reach out to other schools in the district on a more regular basis as typically, our resource officer spent the majority of his time at the high school.

Another change in your police department took place this month as well. We have reinstated the traffic officer position. Officer Dale Willcox will start traffic duties this month. His schedule is still being worked out at this time but his primary function will be traffic enforcement throughout the city. Officer Willcox will also eventually be part of the Clackamas County crash reconstruction team after his training is complete. This team investigates major crashes throughout the county. Congratulations to Officer Willcox.

The contract for police services for the city of Estacada is finished. Our officers have returned to patrol and other duties here in Sandy. This means we are finally back to having a full staff for the time being. I’m happy to be able to focus all my time and energy to our city.

Lt. Shawn Burns retired at the end of September. He did not want to have a retirement celebration although we did a small get together here at the police department without telling him. He has requested to stay on as a Reserve Officer for a while to finish some projects that I had him start earlier this year. Shawn Burns spend his entire law enforcement career serving the City of Sandy. He will be missed.